flop – English noun declension

English noun forms of flop

Noun: flop
Singularflop
Pluralflops

Sample Sentences

  • Well I know your little baby sister / She thinks that I'm a flop / But I guess that you know that it's true / I spent more time at the bottom than the top [1979, Lou Reed, “I Want to Boogie With You”, in The Bells:]
  • The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands. [1996, John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning:]
  • Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards). [2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games:]
  • The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop. [2005, Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level:]
  • "Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ... [1960, Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787, Bodley Head, page 302:]
  • ... cowpat or cow-flop, Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel. [2000, Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales, Henry Holt & Co., page 162:]
  • "Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?" [2003, John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow, St. Martin's Press, page 215:]
  • 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
  • Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
  • He was kind of worn but the tooth said he'd never lost a fight or slept in a flop. [2013, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Dangerous Games:]

Etymology

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound.

Verbs referencing "flop"

Danish Nouns flop, Dutch Nouns flop, German Nouns Flop, Finnish Nouns floppi, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns flopp, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns flopp, Swedish Nouns flopp.